Chapter 1216 - 844.5: World Barrier

The immortality gained through the protection of others is ultimately just an illusion, unable to withstand the trials of wind and rain.

Yet, to attain the state of Daluo, one must condense the True Spirit, which indeed posed a challenge for Zhang Chen. Could it be that postnatal spirits truly cannot condense the True Spirit?

If even becoming a Daluo Golden Immortal is beyond reach, how much more impossible would it be to achieve the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal?

Then what’s the point of cultivation? Might as well just end it all!

"But you need not worry about your safety. As long as you loyally serve the Queen Mother of the West, she can protect you, ensuring your immortality, free from destruction through countless kalpas. You need not worry about your lifespan," the white ape comforted Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen remained silent, lost in contemplation. Having reached the white ape’s level of cultivation, there was no reason to doubt its words. So, was it truly impossible for postnatal spirits to achieve Daluo?

What about his Golden Finger? Could it break through the shackles and elevate his Divine Techniques without limitation?

As Zhang Chen pondered this, a sudden angry shout came from outside, followed by a thunderous crash. His instincts made him look up, and he was shocked to see the wind and rain in the void disappear. The mighty Fate River had been forcibly split in two.

The Fate River was severed, turned into two halves, and a path leading to the heavens was created. Even the ephemeral figure in the mist disappeared.

"Such overwhelming power! This is the Fate River that encompasses the entire world, and it was split in two. It’s unbelievable!" Zhang Chen was taken aback, a serious look in his eyes.

Looking at the Queen Mother of the West, he saw her face pale, her hair in disarray, with strands falling from her head. A transparent hole, as thick as a fist, pierced through her chest, affecting her heart and turning into an indelible Dao injury.

She also had a wound on her side, terrifying and grotesque, revealing her internal organs shimmering with brilliant light, with an immortal Qi Mechanism circulating.

Meanwhile, a section of the Fate River shimmered, forming a shape like a barrel of water, but the great enemy there was so heavily wounded that it couldn’t even form a humanoid shape:

"Queen Mother of the West, your body has been heavily damaged, your Leakless Body broken. Your Essence Qi will endlessly flow back into the world. You’re doomed! The Essence Qi of Heaven and Earth won’t suffice to mend your wounds. Eventually, you’ll be buried by the world! If you choose to abandon your flesh and harmonize with the Dao now, there might be a turning point. Otherwise, certain death awaits!"

"Heh, you may have injured me, but by severing the Fate River, I’ve equally injured you by breaking the karma of all beings," the Queen Mother retorted, her voice filled with triumph.

"Moreover, I am about to enter the Great Chaos. Once there, surrounded by an abundance of Qi of Chaos, healing my wounds will be as quick as a snap of the fingers. What harm can these mere injuries do? What harm at all?" Her voice brimmed with confidence as she strode across the newly created continent, treating the figure in the Fate River as if it were nothing.

The figure in the Fate River looked at the Queen Mother with helpless eyes. Unfortunately, she had already left the Fate River, and he could not step out of it into the place where the current was broken, only to watch as she crossed the Fate River and plunged into the Chaos.

The Queen Mother walked through the Chaos, devouring the Essence Qi within, but the Essence Qi pouring out of her exceeded the speed at which she absorbed the Qi of Chaos. Her injuries not only persisted but worsened.

Yet she remained composed and unhurried, for as long as she reached the Great Chaos, she could instantly recover her wounds.

In the Small Chaos, the Queen Mother traveled an indeterminate distance, enduring various cosmic tempests and innate storms that approached. Yet, her circulating Qi Mechanism effortlessly neutralized these calamities, rendering them invisible.

The Queen Mother tirelessly walked within the Small Chaos; the peaches on the trees ripened three times, and Zhang Chen grew weary of eating peaches. Finally, at a certain moment, a splendid and vibrant ribbon of aurora appeared before Zhang Chen’s eyes.

Seeing the distant light curtain, Zhang Chen’s heart trembled, "The world barrier!"

When his spirit entered the Thirty-Three Heavens initially, he had seen such a barrier; although the barrier of the Thirty-Three Heavens was different from the one before him, there were unmistakable similarities.

The Queen Mother saw the colorful screen, joy flickering in her eyes, "You cannot confine me. Today, I shall pierce through your world barrier and like a dragon return to the sea!"

With a single step, she spanned infinite distances, reaching the colored aurora, wielding her Primordial Law in hand, she fiercely struck at the world barrier.

With this strike, the Small Chaos exploded, stirring up earth, water, wind, and fire, dividing the clear and the turbid, as if the entire Small Chaos was undergoing a creation.

Fortunately, the altar where Zhang Chen was located was protected by eighty-one innate grand arrays; otherwise, he would most likely have faced calamity today. The Queen Mother’s earth-shattering blow landed on the world barrier, which twisted into a terrifying face, swallowing the fearsome power of the punch.

In the next moment, the world barrier expanded a few degrees further.

"How could this be!" The Queen Mother stood still, her eyes filled with disbelief.

"The force of your strike can assist the Great World in opening chaos, expanding the world’s domain. Your recent strike has at least contributed to the opening of a hundred miles of territory for the Great World," the blurry face on the world barrier spoke, its voice resonating with the same enigmatic sound as before from the River of Fate.

The Queen Mother’s expression changed, her face turning very unpleasant, and the smile began to vanish.

"My strike was absorbed by you, transformed into the power to open heaven and earth. Do you think you can still open the territory after I break it? The reason you can absorb my strike is that it’s within your tolerance range, but if my attack power surpasses your transformation limit, you will be shattered by me!" The Queen Mother’s voice was filled with contempt.

"Can you break my limits in your current state?" The faceless face spoke quietly, the voice filled with silence: "Return to your destiny where your flesh becomes part of heaven and earth!"

The Queen Mother said nothing, merely flicked her sleeve, causing countless elixirs to appear and form a sea that fell into her mouth. Even the numerous peaches of immortality from the Peach Tree began to autonomously fly into her body.

At this time, the Queen Mother went to the utmost of transformation. Her injuries, although not healed, her momentum restored to the peak state.

"Do you know? I have long been guarding against this trick!" The Queen Mother slowly held the altar before her eyes: "Inside this altar is the Ancestral Dragon Vein of the earth, containing the power of earth; heaven and earth oppose each other, this power is your nemesis."

The faceless entity sighed softly: "Too bad, you only extracted a part of the ancestral vein, it cannot represent the entire power of earth."

"Whether it can represent or not, trying will tell." The Queen Mother’s voice was icy, as her surrounding power poured into the altar. The eighty-four innate grand arrays on the altar operated simultaneously, and the Five Directions Banner began to rotate, a dragon’s roar resonated as an earthen-yellow divine dragon threaded through the eighty-four arrays.

"Kunlun Mountain’s ancestral vein? The Queen Mother is actually using the Reverse Scale to control the ancestral vein of Kunlun Mountain? Extracting the entire Dragon Vein?" White Ape’s eyelid twitched, revealing a touch of shock in its eyes.

In the next moment, the altar emitted an unwavering decisiveness like a meteor, colliding toward the faceless entity on the barrier.

"Watch out!" White Ape exclaimed, tightly gripping the branch of the Peach Tree, while Zhang Chen’s face turned ashen. Even a fool could imagine the terrifying counterforce generated by the collision of two high-speed objects, so Zhang Chen launched the Substitute Death Technique without hesitation.

"Boom~"

A deafening boom echoed like the creation of the world, shaking heaven and earth, bursting chaos as Zhang Chen was flung away in an instant. He realized at that moment that the Substitute Death Technique was not enough to dissolve the counterforce, so he unhesitatingly unleashed the Authority of Wood Element, commanding the branches of the Peach Tree before him to shield him.

His Authority of Wood Element could not cover the entire Peach Tree, only command the branches in front of him to protect him.

When the seismic quaking ceased, Zhang Chen suddenly opened his eyes to see a changed world. The thousand Golden Armor Divine Generals were all turned to dust, White Ape spat blood with its limbs bent at an uncanny angle, clearly heavily injured, and Zhang Chen’s body was reduced to a smear of mud, his Primordial Spirit flickering weakly like a candle in the wind.

But Zhang Chen did not focus on his own situation; instead, he turned his eyes outward to see the chaotic barrier had been breached, a passage finally opened—and the altar embedded in the barrier upheld the passage.

An enormous rush of Qi of Chaos streamed in from the outside, like a mighty river. The Queen Mother stood at the passage, staggering while she inhaled the Qi of Chaos, clearly at her limit.

"I said, you couldn’t stop me!" The Queen Mother gazed at the passage, her voice full of satisfaction: "Primordial Spirit of Creation, you onced opened heaven and earth, left a trace of consciousness in the Heavenly Dao, but now through my fatal strike, you will likely to be annihilated too. Was it worth it? I’m not from this world, why did you insist on trapping me here to absorb me and evolve the world?"

Her voice permeated with triumph; that was the arrogance of a victor.

The Queen Mother’s voice echoed through heaven and earth without response from the Primordial Spirit of Creation.

"Old fool, first I smash your Celestial Eye, then cut off the River of Fate, now I’ve pierced the world passage, I can’t think of a reason you won’t vanish completely!" The Queen Mother’s voice brimmed with pride, as she stumbled towards the passage.